UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Fountain Hills, AZ, USA

Brother in law of MUFON Investigator sees large black object hovering stationary over mountains in the NE

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-27
Where
Fountain Hills, AZ, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
33.612, -111.717 · exact
Slug
other-over-fountain-hills-az-1997-fc1781
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Fountain Hills, AZ has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 145 reports from Arizona.
  • The 1990s skewed 8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.